Quote

On the morning in question, she wore white shorts and a pink T-shirt that featured a green dragon breathing a fire of orange glitter. It is difficult to explain how awesome I found this T-shirt at the time.

John Green

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
Author
Businessperson
Critic
Editor
Film Producer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Podcaster
Singer
Indianapolis
Indiana
John Michael Green
Time
Explain
Pink
Green
Wore
Question
Dragons
Fire
Orange
Morning
Shirt
Featured
White
Awesome
Shorts
Difficult
Shirts
Glitter
Found
Breathing
Dragon

More quotes by John Green

Image
Your responsibility is not to the people you're making the gift for, but the gift itself.
John Green
Image
Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.
John Green
Image
He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her
John Green
Image
She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die
John Green
Image
I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided.
John Green
Image
Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.
John Green
Image
That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.
John Green
Image
He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon strings seemed so beautiful as they rolled up and down with the wind, landing on the ground and then twirling and floating up again, falling and rising and falling and rising.
John Green
Image
This star won't go out. And it won't. we won't let it.
John Green
Image
That was part of her, and you used to know it. It's like now you only care about the Alaska you made up.
John Green
Image
You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.
John Green
Image
People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.
John Green
Image
Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.
John Green
Image
I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.
John Green
Image
I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all the small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. But, talking to you makes me feel like the fan's been turned off for a little bit. Like things could actually make sense. You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that so much.
John Green
Image
The things I would do to that boy. I mean, not now that I know you're interested in him. But, oh, sweet holy Lord, I would ride that one-legged pony all the way around the corral. Kaitlyn, I said. Sorry. Do you think you'd have to be on top? Kaitlyn, I said.
John Green
Image
I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.
John Green
Image
I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.
John Green
Image
I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.
John Green
Image
And I vaguely remember her smiling at me from the door way the glittering ambiguity of a girls smile, which seems to promise an answer to the question, but never gives it. The question, the one we’ve all been asking since girls stopped being gross, the question that is to simple to be uncomplicated: Does she like me or does she LIKE me?
John Green